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It's Friday, and though I'm on call today, it's been a pretty active morning so far, with about a dozen phone calls and radio contacts (some at the same time, with a Russian at the other end of one link, and an English-speaker at the other end of the other).
It's foggy this morning, the same way it was yesterday, depriving me of the awesome sunrises of earlier in the week. For several days, the top edge of the sun came up over the dead flat horizon and created a red-orange point of light that looked like some kind of giant jewel set into the skyline.
Yesterday, I supported the return trip - generically known around here as a "backhaul" - of the satellite container to the airport for its loading onto the Antonov and shipment back to the manufacturer's facility in France.
Even empty, the container weighs a considerable amount, requiring the use of the same large truck-mounted crane as was used for unloading. I took the following shot as one of the crane crew prepared to attach the container lifting beam (palonnier de lavage) to the crane's hook:
I stuck like glue to the French engineer supervising the operation, which was a trick because there were moments it seemed he was in at least three places at the same time. Eventually, though, the container was placed back on the rails and rolled back into the cargo bay of the aircraft. Among the last things to go aboard the An-124 was the pallet with the lifting beam and other accessories, shown in this next shot being lifted from a flatbed trailer by the cargo plane's 10-ton aft bridge crane.
In other news, my registration at the Nuance discussion forum apparently came through some time during the night here, and I've posted my tale of woe. As a backup, I've also sent a note to the customer service department inquiring about getting my money back if the program won't run.
Cheers...
It's foggy this morning, the same way it was yesterday, depriving me of the awesome sunrises of earlier in the week. For several days, the top edge of the sun came up over the dead flat horizon and created a red-orange point of light that looked like some kind of giant jewel set into the skyline.
Yesterday, I supported the return trip - generically known around here as a "backhaul" - of the satellite container to the airport for its loading onto the Antonov and shipment back to the manufacturer's facility in France.
Even empty, the container weighs a considerable amount, requiring the use of the same large truck-mounted crane as was used for unloading. I took the following shot as one of the crane crew prepared to attach the container lifting beam (palonnier de lavage) to the crane's hook:
I stuck like glue to the French engineer supervising the operation, which was a trick because there were moments it seemed he was in at least three places at the same time. Eventually, though, the container was placed back on the rails and rolled back into the cargo bay of the aircraft. Among the last things to go aboard the An-124 was the pallet with the lifting beam and other accessories, shown in this next shot being lifted from a flatbed trailer by the cargo plane's 10-ton aft bridge crane.
In other news, my registration at the Nuance discussion forum apparently came through some time during the night here, and I've posted my tale of woe. As a backup, I've also sent a note to the customer service department inquiring about getting my money back if the program won't run.
Cheers...
